In this course, Yeshiva University history professor Ellen Schrecker investigates the early years of the Cold War and the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism as it swept through Americna society.
20th century
- Author:Schrecker, EllenSummary:
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Beginning with New York City's first ever New Year's ball drop, 1908 got off to a spectacular start. As the year went on, America witnessed President Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet sailing around the globe, Henry...
- Author:Maybee, JanetSummary:
On December 6, 1917, harbour pilot Francis Mackey was guiding Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by Belgian Relief vessel Imo. The resulting massive explosion...
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"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic,...
- Author:Lodge, DavidSummary:
As he lies dying in 1944 in Lodge's fictional account, H.G. Wells takes the opportunity to reflect on his many sexual conquests, but finds himself focusing on his memories of a handful of wives and mistresses. Recollecting his time...
- Author:Fowler, CarolynSummary:
- A history of the Great War World War One and the international crisis of the early twentieth centuryAuthor:Brose, Eric DornSummary:
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- Author:Conant, JennetSummary:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was...
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One of Canada's most important art alliances made history by demanding recognition for its members as professional, contemporary artists at a time when they were routinely excluded from the mainstream art world.
- Author:Duder, CameronSummary:
The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
- Author:Feinstein, JohnSummary:
The master sportswriter uncovers the stunning truth behind one of the most violent acts in basketball history -- the moment when the Los Angeles Lakers' Kermit Washington punched and almost killed the Houston Rockets' All-Star...